TESOL Resources to Celebrate Adult Education & Family Literacy Week 

Advocacy Resources

TESOL International Association aims to deepen respect for the TESOL profession, its practitioners, and the profession's student constituency. TESOL's advocacy program addresses issues that affect the profession worldwide and offers English language educators the opportunity to get involved.

Free Resources

Community and Family Resources for English Language Professionals

Working with the families of English learners and building strong communities is one of the biggest challenges that many English language professionals face. Recognizing this, TESOL International Association developed the Community and Family Tool Kit, a FREE resource for English language professionals to use at all levels to connect with families and build strong communities. 

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)

As the largest piece of federal legislation to address adult education and workforce training, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) provides a significant amount of funding to adult English language learner programs across the country. TESOL Press has released a free resource kit to help adult educators better understand the law and its impact on Adult English learners. The page has other resources as well.

Fact Sheets

• https://national-coalition-literacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/NCL-Fact-Sheet_2021.pdf
• https://national-coalition-literacy.org/about-adult-literacy/
• https://public.tableau.com/OnlineFinaltoPublic/NASDAE_Fact_Sheet

Other Associations

• National Association of State Directors of Adult Education
  • http://nasdae.org/resources/
• National Coalition for Literacy
  • https://national-coalition-literacy.org/programs-that-work/exemplary-programs/
  • https://national-coalition-literacy.org/advocacy/adult-learners-stories/
• World Education, Inc.
  • https://edtech.worlded.org/remote-esol-project/effective-practice-and-policy-in-remote-esol/#policy
• ProLiteracy
  • https://www.proliteracy.org/Portals/0/pdf/PL_AdultLitFacts_US_flyer.pdf?ver=2016-05-06-145137-067
• Coalition on Adult Basic Education (COABE
  • https://coabe.org/national-adult-education-and-family-literacy-week/

Student Success Stories

• https://rtc.edu/all-wa-2022
• https://www.carlosrosario.org/category/student-success-stories/
• https://national-coalition-literacy.org/advocacy/adult-learners-stories/

Highlighted Programs

• Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
  • Washington’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training Program (I-BEST)
  • Washington Student Success Center

 

TESOL Resource Center

The TESOL Resource Center contains lesson plans, teaching tips, activities, assessment tools, and much more! Can't find what you need? Be sure to check back: New resources are posted frequently.

TESOL Blog

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TESOL Connections

All members can subscribe to TESOL Connections (TC), a monthly online membership newsletter that features practical articles and useful resources for English language teachers as well as TESOL International Association news.

Past Webinars

Watch the recordings of these recent webinars!